“We’re excited that The ‘Perfect’ Parent is joining this year’s list of award-winning products,” says Julie Kertes, NAPPA General Manager.How can I get my child to stop complaining? How can I get my child to listen to me? These are the two top parenting challenges I am asked about most often, and since they’re both great questions and top-priority concerns, we are going to address them one at a time. This week, let’s talk about WHY kids complain so much, which will give us some insight on HOW you can get them to stop complaining. Next week, we can…
TweetWe guide, we share, we teach our kids from the moment they come into the world. We are the parents, and it’s up to us to set the example. When our children make poor choices and say mean things, we correct them and show them the “right” way. There are years and years of us making a difference in their lives, so they will grow up knowing right from wrong. Once we have children, we generally put our own inner…
TweetDiscussion with my son, ten years old at the time, on our ride home from school: “Mom, can I play with my new NBA Hangtime game (Nintendo 64)?” “ONLY IF you finish your homework, ” I replied robotically. “Mom, why do you always have to say ‘ONLY IF.’ It sounds like I’ll be punished if I don’t. I hate being punished. Ms. A uses “IF” all the time and we don’t like it… ‘IF you don’t sit quietly when the…
TweetWhen we speak of education, we often discuss curriculum, tests, homework, and how teachers present educational material to students. We focus on technology in the classroom, grades on a report card, and whether one school is providing the same opportunities as the next school. We want to know how many hours of instruction students get, what art projects they are doing, and how many of their hours are filled with STEM-based activities. But we seem to have completely lost sight…
Tweet“Only an unfettered mind, where imagination has full play, has the audacity to challenge the impossible.” – Uell S. Anderson Let kids imagine what they are imagining. Their minds at young ages are naturally “unfettered” so adults should allow them to express their imagination in whatever words they use. This means we should help them formulate their imagination into sentences if they are at a loss for words. Fostering their imagination and helping to grow it will only further necessary…
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